Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Thomas Carew. 1595?1639?294. Epitaph On the Lady Mary Villiers
THE Lady Mary Villiers lies | |
Under this stone; with weeping eyes | |
The parents that first gave her birth, | |
And their sad friends, laid her in earth. | |
If any of them, Reader, were | 5 |
Known unto thee, shed a tear; | |
Or if thyself possess a gem | |
As dear to thee, as this to them, | |
Though a stranger to this place, | |
Bewail in theirs thine own hard case: | 10 |
For thou perhaps at thy return | |
May’st find thy Darling in an urn. |